Hustings at Brentford for the election for the seat of Middlesex in 1802: Sir Francis Burdett, surrounded by a boisterous crowd, pleads with the Devil to support him, but the Devil looks at the hustings and decides to return to Hell. Etching attributed to J.T. Smith, 1802.

At centre, Sir Francis Burdett, the Whig candidate in the election, presses his hands together in the direction of the Devil who had arrived to support Burdett and now retreats satisfied to Hell. The scene is set in a galleried court. Stuck on the side of the lower tier is a banner announcing the names of 'Burdett Fox and Ld. W. Russel'. Another banner declares 'No Bastile'. Burdett was campaigning for the reform of prison conditions especially in Coldbath Fields in Clerkenwell, for which his opponent in the election, William Mainwaring, was responsible in his role as chairman of the Middlesex Quarter Sessions. Lord William Russell (1767-1840) was the Whig member of Parliament for Surrey: he and Charles James Fox were supporting Burdett. As the Devil prepares to return to hell, he says "What's Brentford when compar'd with your Brentford election?" (Huddesford, op. cit. 12)